PAPA, or PABBA (Scand.),
PFAFFE (Ger.),
POP (Sclav.),
a priest; e.g. Pabba (the priest’s island), several of this name in the Hebrides; Papa-Stour (the great island of the priest), in Shetland; Papa-Stronsay (the priest’s island near Stronsay), Orkney; Pappenheim, Pfaffenhausen, Pfaffenberg, Pfaffenhofen (the priest’s dwelling), in Germany; Papendrecht (the priest’s pasture); Pfarrkirchen (the priest’s or parish church); Poppowitz, Poppow, Sclav. (places belonging to the priests).
PARA (Brazilian),
a river, water, or the sea; e.g. Para, Parahiba, Parana, Paranymbuna, rivers in Brazil; Paraguay (the place of waters); Parana-Assu (the great river); Parana-Mirim (the small river); Parahyba (bad water).
PARA (Sclav.),
a swamp or marsh, cognate with the Lat. palus; e.g. Parchen, Parchau, Parchim (places in a marshy locality); Partwitz or Parzow, Paaren (the town on the marsh), in several localities. The letter p is sometimes changed into b as in Barduz, Barzig, Baruth, in Prussia, and Bars or Barsch, in Hungary.
PATAM, or PATTANA (Sansc.),
a city; e.g. Nagapatam (the city of the snake); Masulipatam (of fishes); Periapatam (the chosen city); Viziapatam (the city of victory); Seringapatam, i.e. Sri-ranja-Pattana (the city of Vishnu); Pata or Pattana (the city); Madras or Madras-patan (the city of the college or school; madrasa, Ar., a university). Madras is called by the natives Chenna-patana (the city of Chenappa, an Indian prince).
PEEL (Cel. pile),
a small fortress; e.g. Peel, in the Isle of Man, and numerous Peel towers on the border between England and Scotland. The Pile of Foudrig (the peel or tower of the fire island), called Furness, the site of an ancient lighthouse; Les Pilles, in Dauphiny; Ile du Pilier, in La Vendée, with a lighthouse; Pillas, in the Lithuanian language also, is a castle, thus—Pillkallan (the castle on the hill), in E. Prussia, as well as the towns of Pillau, in E. Prussia, Pilsen, in Bohemia, and Pillnitz (the towns with fortifications).